Identify your domain host

What's a domain host?

Your domain host is the Internet hosting service that stores the records you need to update when you set up G Suite. These DNS records control where you receive your email, your web addresses, and settings for your domain.

For G Suite, you can add a record (TXT or CNAME record depending on the host) to verify your domain ownership and update MX records to set up Gmail. You make the record changes to your domain host, not your Google Admin console.

If making record changes sound a little technical, we give you step-by-step instructions and Google Support is always available to help, 24/7.

Find your domain host

Go to the whois lookup page provided by ICANN, a non-profit organization that compiles domain information. (You can also search for “whois free” to find a company that performs free lookups.)

Enter your domain name in the search field and click Lookup.

In the results page, look for the Registrar section for the name of your domain host and website. For example:

Registrar: Polarmatix.com Domain Services

Registrar URL: www.polarmatix.com or URL: www.polarmatix.com

Now that you know your domain host, you can update your domain records for G Suite:​

In rare cases, your domain host is not your domain registrar (where you purchased your domain). You can find information about your domain host by looking up your domain’s name servers.

Go to the whois lookup page provided by ICANN, a non-profit organization that compiles domain information. (You can also search for “whois free” to find a company that performs free lookups.)

Enter your domain name in the search field and click Lookup.

In the results page, look for the Name Server section. For example:

Domain Name: kitbeat.org

Registrar Name: namecheap.com

Name Server: ns1.wordpress.com

The domain host name is usually embedded in name of name server. In this example, the name server is “wordpress”, which is associated with the domain host, WordPress.com. The domain host may not be obvious, so if you need assistance, contact our Support team or visit the G Suite forum to post questions to experts in the community.